Dec. 17
VIETNAM----execution
Prisoner executed by lethal injection for 1st time in HCMC
For the very 1st time, a prisoner in Ho Chi Minh City was executed by lethal
injection on December 16.
Tran Quoc Tuan, 36, from District 8 of Ho Chi Minh City, who was charged for
robbery and the murder of Nguyen Thanh Duy, a motorbike taxi driver, was put to
death by lethal injection on December 16 after the verdict was pronounced by
the People's Court and subsequent appeal in the Supreme Court.
Tuan is the 1st prisoner to be executed by lethal injection in Ho Chi Minh
City.
(source: Saigon gp-Daily)
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